Goals | Your Impact

Your Impact

The impact from your donations is felt around the hospital as the money donated goes to fund equipment that benefits patients and helps attract and retain the medical specialists and professional staff needed to ensure quality patient services in Lethbridge - close to home.

We are grateful to the many donors and supporters who help make CRH a state-of-the-art, regional referral centre for all of Southern Alberta.

To find out more about The Power of Giving to the CRHF click here: Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation (crhfoundation.ca)

"The Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation is a strong and bold partner with our clinical teams to ensure our teams deliver care in optimized environments, with optimal equipment and with the education and [support systems] to provide exceptional care.

For example, the foundation has purchased specific surgical equipment for ambulatory and inpatient patients at Chinook Regional Hospital.

At the same time, they have enhanced the equipment used by home care, public health and ambulatory rehabilitation
teams who help individuals avoid hospitalization or are recently discharged from hospital.

The foundation has also aided many clinical team wellness supports including Schwartz Rounds, led International
Women’s Day celebrations, and helped our teams launch a new computerized charting system.

Finally, the foundation has boldly embraced a transformative vision to support enhanced cardiac care in southern Alberta.”

Colin Zieber, Senior Operating Officer
Chinook Regional Hospital

The goals of the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation are:

To actively solicit and raise funds for the Chinook Regional Hospital and its community health programs.

To solicit and secure long-term financial support.

To cultivate a committed volunteer base.

To advance health care education in the community.

To find out more about the CRHF Mission and Vision click here: Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation (crhfoundation.ca)

Individuals in our community facing mental health and addiction challenges deserve support. When you donate to the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation, you’re helping healthcare workers like Chelsea, and the Inpatient and PAN teams deliver the best possible care in our communities.

"Without health workers, there is no healthcare. At the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation, we celebrate and support our healthcare workers efforts with funding for state-of-the art equipment and specialized programs, like Schwartz Rounds."

This year, our donors proudly supported the Opthamology Department with a purchase of Retina Camera. This key piece of equipment allows our Hospital to continue providing our Southern Alberta patients with first rate care without having to leave our region, a problematic challenge when vision is impaired.

In the modern operating room, efficiency is critical to quality of patient care. The more powerful and efficient an OR becomes, the greater the number of patients who receive vital care as a result. Created with Operating Room staff in mind, the i-Suite provides surgical teams efficiencies that allow them to focus on patient care.

You know those $10 and $20 donations? They add up. Almost all of the $2 Million dollars raised by the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation in 2014 was from our individual donors, much like yourselves.

Your generosity is directly impacting families in our community. You’ve helped ensure the tenacious mothers, sisters, daughters, matriarchs, and heroes are able to receive early and life-saving breast cancer detection.

The C.A.M.P Program is an inpatient treatment program offered that offers mental health treatment in combination with a school program to children between the ages of 5 - 17. Treatment is 24 hours per day, 5 days a week, following the school calendar.

A cutting edge CT scanner significantly enhances our ability to diagnose and treat our patients, who deserve nothing less. Donor contributions were paramount in being able to obtain the necessary equipment to meet the ever-changing demands of our community.

This year, our donors proudly supported the Children’s Audiology Department with the purchase of a Bio-Logic Albear Newborn Hearing Screening Device. This equipment purchase aids in directly minimizing the impact of hearing loss on a child’s life through early identification and intervention.

A result of tremendous donor support, a SCIFIT Recumbent Bike was purchased for the Rehabilitation Department. This versatile piece of equipment not only aids in improving strength, flexibility and endurance but also impacts the patient’s overall mental, emotional and physical health.

Christmas Tree Festival | Gala Tonight!!

CRHF 30th Annual Christmas Tree Festival
| Presented by Stringam Law LLP

Gala and Auction (SOLD OUT)

Wednesday, November 20th - 6:30pm - 9:30pm

We are so excited to see everyone tonight, thank you for your part in this year's celebration!

Want to know more about how this event got it's start?!

Click here to check out Norah's story!

Remembrance Day 2024

On this Remembrance Day, we honor the brave people who have served and continue to serve our country.

Let's take a moment to remember their sacrifice and courage. Wishing you all a day filled with gratitude, love, and appreciation for our heroes.

CRHF Funded | Jaundice Meters

This innovative device provides a non-invasive way to measure bilirubin levels in newborns and other patients, offering results quickly and painlessly.

“Before jaundice meters, the best practice to get a result would be a blood draw, so like a heel poke on a baby – which isn’t always the easiest to do, so this technology improves patient care even for our smallest patients!”

Connie Hoffart | Laboratory Technologist | Point of Care Testing (POCT)

To make a donation today click here, or contact us for details on CRH's greatest needs!

The purpose of the CRHF is to raise, receive, and distribute funds for equipment and programs that will enhance patient services and health programs in our community!